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Shivam Bhatt

@shivambhatt.bsky.social

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Reader, Writer, Hindu Pandit, magic the gathering enthusiast. Super passionate about games, gods, and good stories. he/him.Indo-American email- shbhatt at gmail podcasts- Casual Magic, Shivam and Wheeler Love Magic, and Chronicles of Dragonlance

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · Jan 1

Hi! My name's Shivam and I'm a progressive hindu priest, an activist for LGBT and minority rights, a dad, and a huge fan of magic the gathering and games in general. I talk about board, card, and video games, gods, gardens, and baking! I also host a few podcasts linked below. Thanks for visiting!

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BEAT @beatskelton.bsky.social · Jul 24

AS SOMEONE WITH GENUINE LOVE OF WEIRD NERD RAP, LOL. LMAO.

Onix @onixhope.bsky.social · Jul 23

Beyond fucking parody

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

This is one of the best magic vids ive seen, and its something I've been begging for for years. Just top notch goals.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

This pope, I like him
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Pope: In this age of communication, nobody can say 'I did not know' - Vatican News

Addressing a global network of leading news agencies, Pope Leo thanks reporters who every day work to share the truth, often risking their lives. It ...

www.vaticannews.va

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Wedge Collider @wedge.collider.mov · 3h

hands down my favorite reply to this:

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

Fucking golden knights. Its good to have a rival,I guess 😐

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Equilateral @trianglecore.net · 4h

What gets me the most about these people is that none of them are really religious. It's all a grift. They just want federal money to flow into these spaces as if tex exemption wasn't enough.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

The Education Department has hired at least 9 people from the America First Policy Institute, co-founded by Secretary Linda McMahon.

The think tank’s listed goals include ending the separation of church and state and “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · 4h

Yep

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 3h

spider-gweggings

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · Oct 16

Why do we sleep in booths during the month of Tishrei, just when the weather is turning colder? R' Andre Benjamin and R' Antwan Patton teach that it is because there is only one thing cooler than being cool - ice cold.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 4h

god this looks so cool. cannot wait for the playtest, and if there's anything i can do to help just say the word!

Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 4h

i adore that game

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7h

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6h

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 10h

One cool feature of Steam is they provide a Harassment Zone for each game you announce. It's a place for people who hate progress to come and crap all over games they haven't even played. No, they won't help you moderate it, but hey, at least you can't delete it!

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 21h

Classic Steam forums

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 5h

If they have any tmtg promos please remember your old friend shivam

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 6h

AAEEUUU KILLER TOFU

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 6h

“His critique of market capitalism in particular suggests that in key ways, those who thought they were getting the first American pope are actually getting the second Latin American, one whose stances, like Francis, echo perceptions common in the Global South.”

i’m speechless, y’all.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 6h

i'm gonna be real with you, i love Leo. he's exactly what i want out of a religious leader

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 6h

i look forward to the tiktok and insta reels that will come from this so that i can Salute Your Shorts

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 7h

I'd really appreciate if writers these days took a look at their characters doing therapyspeak and whether that's appropriate for their work and their world.

By "therapyspeak" I mean speaking like this: "This is the emotion I'm feeling, and feeling that emotion makes me want to act in a way"

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 6h

hype for you, man.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 6h

sisay's ring lfg

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A DAMNED Heine @adamheine.com · 7h

The 1993 film of this play was the first time I ever realized how GOOD and RELATABLE Shakespeare can be. Until then, I had only ever read it on the page, understanding not a word.

This clip, too, is even better.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid @jparish.bsky.social · 7h

Tears stream down my face. Is this what it feels like to experience victory, purer and more complete than any man has ever known?

Game Sack @gamesack.net · 8h

God I love that word. I can't remember where I saw it, but there was some video that said "Castlevania got its name because it's a Metroidvania set inside of a castle".

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